ATTITUDINIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does attitudinize mean? 

• ATTITUDINIZE (verb)
  The verb ATTITUDINIZE has 1 sense:

1. assume certain affected attitudes

  Familiarity information: ATTITUDINIZE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ATTITUDINIZE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they attitudinize    ... he / she / it attitudinizes   
Past simple: attitudinized   
Past participle: attitudinized   
-ing form: attitudinizing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Assume certain affected attitudes

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

attitudinise; attitudinize

Hypernyms (to "attitudinize" is one way to...):

pose; posture (behave affectedly or unnaturally in order to impress others)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

attitude (a theatrical pose created for effect)

 Context examples 

But the whole effect is spoiled when I look at them—at Tetralani, five feet ten in her stocking feet and weighing a hundred and ninety pounds, and at Barillo, a scant five feet four, greasy-featured, with the chest of a squat, undersized blacksmith, and at the pair of them, attitudinizing, clasping their breasts, flinging their arms in the air like demented creatures in an asylum; and when I am expected to accept all this as the faithful illusion of a love-scene between a slender and beautiful princess and a handsome, romantic, young prince—why, I can't accept it, that's all.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)